Author: Frederico Delgado Rosa
Publisher: Berghahn Books
ISBN: 1805395661
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 709
Book Description
Focusing on some of the most important ethnographers in early anthropology, this volume explores twelve defining works in the foundational period from 1870 to 1922. It challenges the assumption that intensive fieldwork and monographs based on it emerged only in the twentieth century. What has been regarded as the age of armchair anthropologists was in reality an era of active ethnographic fieldworkers, including women practitioners and Indigenous experts. Their accounts have multiple layers of meaning, style, and content that deserve fresh reading. This reference work is a vital source for rewriting the history of anthropology.
Ethnographers Before Malinowski
Author: Frederico Delgado Rosa
Publisher: Berghahn Books
ISBN: 1805395661
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 709
Book Description
Focusing on some of the most important ethnographers in early anthropology, this volume explores twelve defining works in the foundational period from 1870 to 1922. It challenges the assumption that intensive fieldwork and monographs based on it emerged only in the twentieth century. What has been regarded as the age of armchair anthropologists was in reality an era of active ethnographic fieldworkers, including women practitioners and Indigenous experts. Their accounts have multiple layers of meaning, style, and content that deserve fresh reading. This reference work is a vital source for rewriting the history of anthropology.
Publisher: Berghahn Books
ISBN: 1805395661
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 709
Book Description
Focusing on some of the most important ethnographers in early anthropology, this volume explores twelve defining works in the foundational period from 1870 to 1922. It challenges the assumption that intensive fieldwork and monographs based on it emerged only in the twentieth century. What has been regarded as the age of armchair anthropologists was in reality an era of active ethnographic fieldworkers, including women practitioners and Indigenous experts. Their accounts have multiple layers of meaning, style, and content that deserve fresh reading. This reference work is a vital source for rewriting the history of anthropology.
Time and the Work of Anthropology
Author: Johannes Fabian
Publisher: Psychology Press
ISBN: 9783718652228
Category : Anthropology
Languages : en
Pages : 328
Book Description
Critical Essays, 1971-1991 Culture, Time and the Object of Anthropology Taxonomy and Ideology Genres in an Emerging Tradition Text and Terror Rule and Process Six Theses Reagrding the Anthropology of African Religious Movements Missions and the Colonization of African Languages Religious and Secular Colonization How Others Die Presence and Representation Of Dogs Alive, Birds Dead, and Time to Tell a Story Dilemmas of Critical Anthropology Representation of a Design
Publisher: Psychology Press
ISBN: 9783718652228
Category : Anthropology
Languages : en
Pages : 328
Book Description
Critical Essays, 1971-1991 Culture, Time and the Object of Anthropology Taxonomy and Ideology Genres in an Emerging Tradition Text and Terror Rule and Process Six Theses Reagrding the Anthropology of African Religious Movements Missions and the Colonization of African Languages Religious and Secular Colonization How Others Die Presence and Representation Of Dogs Alive, Birds Dead, and Time to Tell a Story Dilemmas of Critical Anthropology Representation of a Design
Signs, Solidarities, and Sociology
Author: Blasco José Sobrinho
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN: 9780847691791
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 324
Book Description
Signs, Solidarities, & Sociology addresses the formation and fragmentation of identity in today's postmodern world. Informed by the conceptual convergence in the theories of Durkheim, Peirce, Mead, and Lacan, this book surveys the range of twentieth-century sociology to deconstruct those favored nostrums of subjective meaning, personal power, and autonomous selfhood that comprise its semantics of agency. Revealed beneath this semantic screen is the triad of pragmatic codes--premodern affiliation, modern calibration, and postmodern globalization--that govern the social construction of the self. While the ill-comprehended confluence of these three signification codes in the present world situation can indeed fragment personal identity, their formal structural linkages, as shown in this book, may inform a truly postmodern, globally applicable science of culture.
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN: 9780847691791
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 324
Book Description
Signs, Solidarities, & Sociology addresses the formation and fragmentation of identity in today's postmodern world. Informed by the conceptual convergence in the theories of Durkheim, Peirce, Mead, and Lacan, this book surveys the range of twentieth-century sociology to deconstruct those favored nostrums of subjective meaning, personal power, and autonomous selfhood that comprise its semantics of agency. Revealed beneath this semantic screen is the triad of pragmatic codes--premodern affiliation, modern calibration, and postmodern globalization--that govern the social construction of the self. While the ill-comprehended confluence of these three signification codes in the present world situation can indeed fragment personal identity, their formal structural linkages, as shown in this book, may inform a truly postmodern, globally applicable science of culture.
From Antiquarian to Archaeologist
Author: Tim Murray
Publisher: Pen and Sword
ISBN: 1473835119
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 260
Book Description
“Brings together fourteen of Tim Murray’s papers on the history, philosophy, and sociology of archaeology published over two decades.” —Bulletin of the History of Archaeology This volume forms a collection of papers tracking the emergence of the history of archaeology from a subject of marginal status in the 1980s to the mainstream subject which it is today. Professor Timothy Murray’s essays have been widely cited and track over twenty years in the development of the subject. The papers are accompanied by a new introduction which surveys the development of the subject over the last twenty-five years as well as a reflection of what this means for the philosophy of archaeology and theoretical archaeology. This volume spans Tim’s successful career as an academic at the forefront of the study of the history of archaeology, both in Australia and internationally. During his career he has held posts in Britain and Europe as well as Australia. He has edited the Bulletin of the History of Archaeology since 2003.
Publisher: Pen and Sword
ISBN: 1473835119
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 260
Book Description
“Brings together fourteen of Tim Murray’s papers on the history, philosophy, and sociology of archaeology published over two decades.” —Bulletin of the History of Archaeology This volume forms a collection of papers tracking the emergence of the history of archaeology from a subject of marginal status in the 1980s to the mainstream subject which it is today. Professor Timothy Murray’s essays have been widely cited and track over twenty years in the development of the subject. The papers are accompanied by a new introduction which surveys the development of the subject over the last twenty-five years as well as a reflection of what this means for the philosophy of archaeology and theoretical archaeology. This volume spans Tim’s successful career as an academic at the forefront of the study of the history of archaeology, both in Australia and internationally. During his career he has held posts in Britain and Europe as well as Australia. He has edited the Bulletin of the History of Archaeology since 2003.
Transcending Capitalism
Author: Howard Brick
Publisher: Cornell University Press
ISBN: 080145428X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 487
Book Description
Transcending Capitalism explains why many influential midcentury American social theorists came to believe it was no longer meaningful to describe modern Western society as "capitalist," but instead preferred alternative terms such as "postcapitalist," "postindustrial," or "technological." Considering the discussion today of capitalism and its global triumph, it is important to understand why a prior generation of social theorists imagined the future of advanced societies not in a fixed capitalist form but in some course of development leading beyond capitalism.Howard Brick locates this postcapitalist vision within a long history of social theory and ideology. He challenges the common view that American thought and culture utterly succumbed in the 1940s to a conservative cold war consensus that put aside the reform ideology and social theory of the early twentieth century. Rather, expectations of the shift to a new social economy persisted and cannot be disregarded as one of the elements contributing to the revival of dissenting thought and practice in the 1960s.Rooted in a politics of social liberalism, this vision held influence for roughly a half century, from its interwar origins until the right turn in American political culture during the 1970s and 1980s. In offering a historically based understanding of American postcapitalist thought, Brick also presents some current possibilities for reinvigorating critical social thought that explores transitional developments beyond capitalism.
Publisher: Cornell University Press
ISBN: 080145428X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 487
Book Description
Transcending Capitalism explains why many influential midcentury American social theorists came to believe it was no longer meaningful to describe modern Western society as "capitalist," but instead preferred alternative terms such as "postcapitalist," "postindustrial," or "technological." Considering the discussion today of capitalism and its global triumph, it is important to understand why a prior generation of social theorists imagined the future of advanced societies not in a fixed capitalist form but in some course of development leading beyond capitalism.Howard Brick locates this postcapitalist vision within a long history of social theory and ideology. He challenges the common view that American thought and culture utterly succumbed in the 1940s to a conservative cold war consensus that put aside the reform ideology and social theory of the early twentieth century. Rather, expectations of the shift to a new social economy persisted and cannot be disregarded as one of the elements contributing to the revival of dissenting thought and practice in the 1960s.Rooted in a politics of social liberalism, this vision held influence for roughly a half century, from its interwar origins until the right turn in American political culture during the 1970s and 1980s. In offering a historically based understanding of American postcapitalist thought, Brick also presents some current possibilities for reinvigorating critical social thought that explores transitional developments beyond capitalism.
Time and the Work of Anthropology
Author: Johanne Fabian
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1134347294
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 328
Book Description
The development of the dialogical approach, the autobiographical perspective and the central role of text-interpretation are all seen as characteristics of post-modern ethnography, arising from the daily chores of field research. The breakthrough into time and history, away from the timeless theorizing of structuralism and functionalism, is seen as inevitable when anthropology is forced to think about its own epistemology. Another current concern is taken up with reflections on the politics of representing the other. In the later essays, he opposes post-modern fashions and re-asserts the need to continue with a truly critical agenda.
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1134347294
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 328
Book Description
The development of the dialogical approach, the autobiographical perspective and the central role of text-interpretation are all seen as characteristics of post-modern ethnography, arising from the daily chores of field research. The breakthrough into time and history, away from the timeless theorizing of structuralism and functionalism, is seen as inevitable when anthropology is forced to think about its own epistemology. Another current concern is taken up with reflections on the politics of representing the other. In the later essays, he opposes post-modern fashions and re-asserts the need to continue with a truly critical agenda.
Inconsistencies in Greek and Roman Religion
Author: H. S. Versnel
Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9789004092679
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 386
Book Description
This second volume of a two-part collection of studies on inconsistencies in Greek and Roman religion focuses on the ambiguities in myth and ritual of transition and reversal.
Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9789004092679
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 386
Book Description
This second volume of a two-part collection of studies on inconsistencies in Greek and Roman religion focuses on the ambiguities in myth and ritual of transition and reversal.
Cambridge and the Torres Strait
Author: Anita Herle
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521584616
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 278
Book Description
Centenary volume of the Torres Strait Expedition suggesting new ways of looking at its work.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521584616
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 278
Book Description
Centenary volume of the Torres Strait Expedition suggesting new ways of looking at its work.
J. G. Frazer
Author: Robert Ackerman
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521398251
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 374
Book Description
Sir James G. Frazer's The Golden Bough, first published in 1890, was the first work in English to understand the religion of classical antiquity in the context of primitive religion. Its dramatic impact on the history of ideas lasted well into the twentieth century, in its association of religious myths with the more primitive forms of ritual and magic generated by the 'savage mind', identified as a common misunderstanding of the scientific laws governing the natural world. This highly acclaimed biography is a comprehensive study of Frazer's life, the influences on his work, and its wide-ranging implications for modern anthropology, classics, cultural history and folklore.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521398251
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 374
Book Description
Sir James G. Frazer's The Golden Bough, first published in 1890, was the first work in English to understand the religion of classical antiquity in the context of primitive religion. Its dramatic impact on the history of ideas lasted well into the twentieth century, in its association of religious myths with the more primitive forms of ritual and magic generated by the 'savage mind', identified as a common misunderstanding of the scientific laws governing the natural world. This highly acclaimed biography is a comprehensive study of Frazer's life, the influences on his work, and its wide-ranging implications for modern anthropology, classics, cultural history and folklore.
Undisciplined Women
Author: Pauline Greenhill
Publisher: McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
ISBN: 077351614X
Category : Electronic books
Languages : en
Pages : 324
Book Description
Redressing a neglect of women's traditions and feminist perspectives in Canadian folklore studies, 20 contributions discuss female experiences of traditional culture from feminist viewpoints. The authors look at the effect of gender on the collecting and interpreting of women's folklore, negative and positive images of women in traditional and popular culture, and women's use of creativity in their everyday lives. Some contributors are nonacademics. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
Publisher: McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
ISBN: 077351614X
Category : Electronic books
Languages : en
Pages : 324
Book Description
Redressing a neglect of women's traditions and feminist perspectives in Canadian folklore studies, 20 contributions discuss female experiences of traditional culture from feminist viewpoints. The authors look at the effect of gender on the collecting and interpreting of women's folklore, negative and positive images of women in traditional and popular culture, and women's use of creativity in their everyday lives. Some contributors are nonacademics. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR